Table 4 Productive performances of Commercial Browne Lohmann LSL laying hens as affected by dietary additive with N. Oculata under hot environmental conditions.

Parameters	Experimental groups			± SE	P value	Reg. analysis
Parameters	C	TR1	TR2	± SE	P value	R²	P	Relation
Initial body weight (g)	1885	1886	1884	23.50	0.9982	–	–	–
Final body weight (g)	1897	1897	1896	15.23	0.2000	–	–	–
Daily feed intake/hen (g/day)	120.66^a	105.01^b	95.99^c	1.67	0.0001	0.84	0.0001	linear
Total feed intake/hen (g)	12066^a	10501^b	9599^c	167.25	0.0001	0.84	0.0001	linear
Egg number/hen	79.25^c	84.66^a	82.25^b	0.53	0.0001	0.39	0.0002	linear
Egg weight /hen (g)	65.30^b	67.67^a	68.14^a	0.74	0.0267	0.20	0.0120	linear
Total egg mass/hen (g)	5191.35^b	5728.94^a	5604.51^a	76.45	0.0001	0.40	0.0002	linear
Feed conversion ratio	2.32^a	1.83^b	1.71^c	0.04	0.0001	0.80	0.0001	linear
Mortality rate (%)	4.0	1.0	0.0	–	–	–	–	–

C control group, birds fed a corn-soybean basal diet without, N. oculata, TR1 birds fed the basal diet supplemented with 0.5% of N. oculata, TR2 birds fed the basal diet supplemented with 1.0% of N. oculata.
^a–cMeans followed by different letters in superscript in the same row differ significantly (P < 0.05). ± SM, standard error of means. Number of samples: 30 chickens (30n).

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